Now that the plugin is installed you should change all the links back to http://www.jonathanvolk.com/feed/ and use that rather than the feedburner url.

This will do two things for you.

1. As I mentioned before, if you ever build any links to your feed then the link juice will go to your site rather than feedburner. Even with the url being redirected you still keep the link juice because it is a 302 redirect and those don’t pass on link popularity.

2. By getting people to sign up to the /feed/ url rather than feedburner you will avoid having to go to the trouble of asking everyone to switch if you ever decide to quit using feedburner (maybe one day there will be a better service). All you would have to do is remove the redirect or redirect it somewhere else.

~Jonathan

The plugin Matt mentioned is the one I was thinking of. It should perform a 302 redirect, that way the link juice will not be transfered to feedburner.

Did you try feedsmith? That may solve your dilemma http://blogs.feedburner.com/feedburner/archives/2007/05/feedburner_adopts_twoyearold_r.php

by redirecting all requests for a wordpress feed through feedburner. Hope I read that right & it helps.

And thanks! I’m already having a great Bday!

Just a little tip:
If you ever plan on building links to your feed. Like you would if you submitted it to a blog directory that gave the option of a direct link to your feed. Or even if you just want to keep your link equity for your blog, instead of passing it off to feedburner. Then you may want to keep the feed set up as http://www.jonathanvolk.com/feed/ and 302 redirect all traffic to feedburner.

By doing that you can keep the link equity for your blog rather than giving it to feedburner and feedburner will still be able to keep track of your subscribers.

I think there is even a plugin for that. You can probably find it over at feedburner.

Allright dude, Happy B-Day!

Later